Sentences with word «downbeat»

Critics, like our own Jason Zingale, are upbeat about the film's quality, but the more downbeat tone of the tale it tells is inescapable.

We find that the market appears very downbeat on Europe's growth prospects.

Although I remain downbeat about Tory prospects I'm not defeatist.

Student loan holders also give a more downbeat assessment of their personal financial situation compared with their peers who don't have outstanding student debt.

Ahead of the iPhone maker's earnings report, analysts had effectively eviscerated the estimates with downbeat supplier surveys and doom - spelling notes about weak China sales, Cramer said.

Dunst and especially Williams have become known for their accomplished work in downbeat dramas, but they're no less sincere playing ditzy, good - hearted besties insulated by their nervous giggles and loopy scheming.

They worry that a too downbeat assessment of the British economy may be at odds with the «sunshine image» that David Cameron has largely championed.

Justin Kurzel's debut feature is about as downbeat as movies come.

Garland, adapting (and substantially altering) a popular book by Jeff VanderMeer, makes Annihilation perhaps his most downbeat story yet — although if you buy a ticket for a movie called Annihilation, you're really not in a position to complain.

The actor bounced back like she hadn't been in years — like never before, really — in this superb, downbeat drama about a divorced Brooklyn woman slipping through the economic cracks.

This is Kazan's preferred cut, with the more downbeat ending, which gives full power to Blanche's wrenchingly poignant last line «I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.»

Suzanne O'Halloran of FoxBusiness recently wrote about Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's downbeat outlook on housing.

Before the Mayor spoke all of the reception talk was of an autumn election and people were very downbeat about the party's prospects.

Marshal Powell and his two rather inactive sidekicks are unable to save Joe's life and the film ends on a rather downbeat note with Susan the only Lawrence left standing.

Title notwithstanding, Melancholia is not an unduly downbeat film.

H&M's already - downbeat forecast for the start of 2018 was exacerbated by unseasonably warm European weather in January followed by February's cold snap, whipsawing the clothing retail industry.

This isn't downbeat or pessimistic; it's just how things are.

His last film, A Fantastic Woman, was a similarly downbeat look at love and prejudice that starred the trans actress Daniela Vega; an undeniable triumph, the movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

I don't want to sound too downbeat after a 5 - 0 win but these are the standards we've set over the last four or five years and we want to aim to reach those levels.»

Stung by criticism from the UK press and similarly downbeat feedback from its more purist customers, Renaultsport has responded with this, the Clio 220 Trophy.

The whole film is laced with shards of humor and irony, which proves helpful, considering the basically downbeat nature of the material.

A relentlessly downbeat tone makes this Kiwi drama sometimes hard to watch, but the true story is genuinely involving, with an inspirational kick that never feels pushy.

Moody, downbeat tale about a Southern teen (Jamie Bell) who runs away from home with his sickly younger brother after their greedy uncle kills their father.

It's the classic best - friend role, but Bennett manages to be hugely charismatic while playing an essentially downbeat character.

Not only are the consumer sentiment numbers weaker than the headlines suggest, but also small - business owners are likely to infect consumers with their more downbeat views.

Looking forward, I expect investors to continue to react positively to negative economic news out of the eurozone, in line with the classic «bad news good for markets», taking downbeat data as a sign of continued easy money.

Despite valuations that appear cheap relative to the United States, we remain neutral on European equities because of downbeat sentiment and little conviction that growth will accelerate.

Sure, Favre's graying, but on Saturday he was clear - eyed and not the least bit downbeat about the Packers» poor start — the worst since he joined the team in 1992 — and his own inconsistent play.

Q2 was rather downbeat after the peaks of Q1.

Our team has been hindered by injuries in each of our recent campaigns, which has to be somewhat blamed on our busy schedule, and maybe we should not be so downbeat about the prospect of playing outside the Champions League next term.

At the same time, there is no prospect of a happy, cathartic outcome here — one reason why the film makes such downbeat and, occasionally, such depressing viewing.

It's unclear if McCarthy's involvement means that Israel's grim life story will be played for broad laughs, but given that the script was written by downbeat indie humorist Nicole Holofcener and directed by Diary Of A Teenage Girl's Marielle Heller, there's every chance this will be a far more grounded and dramatic performance than we're used to getting from the comedy star.

Despite being only Part One, this feels like the most complete of the Hunger Games films to date, beginning with clear stakes and ending on a cathartic and compellingly downbeat note.

Aside from an unexpectedly downbeat second half, the film is a «huge Rube Goldberg machine, full of lights and buzzers and levers that ping and whistle endearingly, but are connected to nothing and serve no greater function in the larger apparatus.

Sandra Bullock plays Harper Lee (memorably portrayed by Catherine Keener earlier), and she gives a pleasingly downbeat turn, but she often appears to be more focused on keeping her thick southern accent in check above all else and her performance seems a little rudderless.

For such a happy, colorful company, delivering downbeat news does not come naturally to Lego.

The source material is a little downbeat and fashionably YA — a young woman survives a nuclear war — but Robbie's got strong cast mates in Chris Pine and 12 Years a Slave's Chiwetel Ejiofor.

This might be the most downbeat blockbuster in memory, a film that starts out pitiless and goes downhill from there, save for a fleeting glimmer of hope in the final moments.

Leave it to The Bloggess to find humor in such decidedly downbeat topics as severe depression, crippling anxiety and the coming zombie apocalypse.

Industry professionals gathered by the tens of thousands November 1 — 4 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, eager to do business in a specialty - equipment market that is clearly looking up after several years of downbeat economic news.

Lose it and the old Mourinho hoodoo will be back and our start to the season will be looking seriously downbeat again.

There wasn't anything juicy gameplay wise to test the hardcore fans, but it was a breath of fresh air to the dour downbeat atmosphere of FF «s recent history.

Southampton supporters have been pretty downbeat in the Transfer Tavern this week after seeing their side go down 3 - 0 away at fellow Premier League st...

Two teams in contrasting form collide at Bloomfield Road this weekend as a Stoke side still buoyed by their FA Cup success tackle a free - falling Blackpool who, despite their severe dip in form since the New Year, are refusing to get downbeat about their chances of remaining in the division.

Osborne's speech marks a return to his previous downbeat rhetoric, after spending much of last autumn offering a more positive outlook.

«Hostiles» is a funereal, downbeat Western conjured up by a filmmaker with only a passing acquaintance with the genre.

Cited four times as best trombonist in the annual Downbeat Critics Poll, Wycliffe Gordon recently was named a visiting artist in the jazz studies program at Johns Hopkins University.

Where his recent soundtrack for «The Light Between Oceans» (also on Lakeshore Records) was awash in giant, romantic gestures, Desplat's turn to an «American Pastoral» is a gorgeously downbeat score.